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Apache Lucene open-source search software
3.5K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
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Apache Solr open-source search software
1.6K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add apache/solr#3
🦔 Fast, lightweight & schema-less search backend. An alternative to Elasticsearch that runs on a few MBs of RAM.
21K starsJun 12, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add valeriansaliou/sonic#4
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack
12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch#5
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
77K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add elastic/elasticsearch#6
🔎 Open source distributed and RESTful search engine.
13K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add opensearch-project/OpenSearch#7
Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
4.4K starsMay 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeSearchClaude Code
$ npx skills add apache/lucene-solr#8
Distributed Peer-to-Peer Web Search Engine and Intranet Search Appliance
4.0K starsJun 4, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add yacy/yacy_search_server#9
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng#10
JVector: the most advanced embedded vector search engine
1.7K starsJun 15, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add datastax/jvector#11
Internet search engine for text-oriented websites. Indexing the small, old and weird web.
1.8K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaSearch
$ npx skills add MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch#12
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
15K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/tantivy#13
Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.
11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit#14
Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!
12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira#15
Privacy-respecting metasearch engine
14K starsMay 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searx/searx#16
Next-generation full-text search library for Browser and Node.js
14K starsMay 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptSearch
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